**About the Editor**

### **Ilaria Guagliardi**

Ilaria Guagliardi is a permanent researcher at the National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Agricultural and Forestry Systems in the Mediterranean (ISAFOM) in Rende (CS), Italy. Her research interests mainly include environmental geochemistry; pollution phenomena in agricultural and urban soils, waters and sediments; geostatistical and multivariate analysis of data with the support of compositional and multifractal data analysis methods; the development of geospatial geochemical risk analysis methods for the optimized management of environmental impacts on a regional scale. In addition, she has also carried out water-related research, such as research on hydrological modeling, watershed management and landscape ecology. Contextually, she participates in intense editorial and peer-reviewing activities, being the associate editor and reviewer of more than 50 international scientific journals. She is the author of more than 50 scientific publications and an expert panel member for evaluating international research projects. She currently collaborates with several Italian and foreign universities and research institutes.
